As others have pointed out, the output of such a program would be rather difficult to deal with; however, if one were to attempt such an undertaking, surely Perl would be the most natural language to use (w.r.t. coding efficiency, speed). The code for such a program in Perl would be trivial, and it is freely distributed in any linux/unix/mac-os-X platform, and publicly available for MS-Dos implementation as well (try http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/LANG/Perl-1.html).
The most similar appln I can think of is working with large dna/protein sequences which is done routinely in bioinformatics... regards, prad Pradyumna S Upadrashta, PhD Student Grad Prog in Scientific Computation University of Minnesota >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gilgames >Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:03 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [edstat] Word permutations > > ><< >Many thanks in advance for any help. >The letters "abcd" can be arranged in 4P4 = 24 ways. They can >be spelt out on paper without difficulty (abcd, abdc, ... >etc.) For larger words the number of permutations soon runs >into billions... which brings me to my question: does anyone >have any vba code to spell out each permutation on large words >(12 letters and upwards)? >> > >1./ What is it good for? > >2./ What do you think the how many permutations are for the word 'aaaa' > >. >. ================================================================= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about >the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: >. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . >================================================================= > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
